Psychoanalysis, Science and Power

Psychoanalysis, Science and Power reexamines the current state of psychoanalysis and science and technology studies as they have been influenced by Robert Maxwell Young's work. Young urged that psychoanalysis, particularly in its Kleinian incarnation, illuminated new aspects of science and technology studies, and vice versa.

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Kurt Jacobsen is co-editor of Free Associations journal and research associate in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, USA. He also is an award-winning documentary filmmaker.

R. D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, previously Professor at Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex (now Emeritus, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies), UK. He was Consultant Psychotherapist in the NHS for many years, and Director of the Cassel Hospital, 19931997. He has a long association with Free Associations journal.

Klappentext

Psychoanalysis, Science and Power reexamines the current state of psychoanalysis and science and technology studies as they have been influenced by Robert Maxwell Young's work. Robert Maxwell Young, a Texas émigré to Britain, was a scholar, publisher, TV documentarian, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, journal editor, conference organizer and political activist. Young urged that psychoanalysis, particularly in its Kleinian incarnation, illuminated new aspects of science and technology studies, and vice versa. This volume not only provides an overview of Young's life and interests by a stellar cast of scholars and practitioners but also commemorates the many and intersecting streams of his contributions, reasoning for their continuing relevance in the contemporary studies of psychoanalysis, biological sciences, technology and Darwinian thought. Presenting perspectives that are rigorously analytical and yet often poignant, Psychoanalysis, Science and Power will be an important read for students, analysts and analytic therapists of all orientations who are interested in broadening their understanding of their practice.

Zusammenfassung

Psychoanalysis, Science and Power reexamines the current state of psychoanalysis and science and technology studies as they have been influenced by Robert Maxwell Young's work.

Robert Maxwell Young, a Texas émigré to Britain, was a scholar, publisher, TV documentarian, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, journal editor, conference organizer and political activist. Young urged that psychoanalysis, particularly in its Kleinian incarnation, illuminated new aspects of science and technology studies, and vice versa. This volume not only provides an overview of Young's life and interests by a stellar cast of scholars and practitioners but also commemorates the many and intersecting streams of his contributions, reasoning for their continuing relevance in the contemporary studies of psychoanalysis, biological sciences, technology and Darwinian thought.

Presenting perspectives that are rigorously analytical and yet often poignant, Psychoanalysis, Science and Power will be an important read for students, analysts and analytic therapists of all orientations who are interested in broadening their understanding of their practice.

Inhalt

Introduction

Kurt Jacobsen and R.D. Hinshelwood

Part 1 Darwin and Malthus: The Cambridge Years

Roger Smith, "Relations: history of science and the thought of the therapist"

Jim Secord, "Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young "

Timothy Sim, "The Reception of R. M. Young's Mind Brain and Adaptation"

Michael Ruse, "The Darwinian Aftermath"

Part 2 History of Science and Technology

Kurt Jacobsen, "Paradigms at Bay: Robert M. Young and the Dialectical Development of Science and Technology Studies"

Maureen McNeil, "Science is Social Relation: Reflections on the Essay and the Intervention"

Les Levidow, "Let's Move on': radical science, critique and Marxism"

Part 3 Psychoanalysis

Barry Richards, "Bob Young and the Free Associations project: A personal recollection"

Ann Scott, "Bob Young at Free Associations Books"

Karl Figlio, "Human nature and money"

Peter Barham, Schizophrenia in history"

R. D. Hinshelwood, "Values: inner and outer"

Paul Hoggett, "Primitive space"

Valerie Sinason, 'Robert M. Young: A farewell"

Conclusion: Bob Young and regenerating his Project

Kurt Jacobsen and R. D. Hinshelwood

Coda: An interview with Bob Young